Should I start Malik Nabers or Ricky Pearsall in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Malik Nabers, and the board ranks him 225th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 12; 2QB: ADP 27.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Ricky Pearsall, and the board ranks him 228th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

No season market is posted for Malik Nabers, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

No season market is posted for Ricky Pearsall, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Malik Nabers has been on the field for 76 percent of NYG snaps, drawn 30 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 15 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 2 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 12 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 70 targets have averaged 11.6 air yards.

In Week 5 against WAS he caught 11 of 20 targets for 121 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against NO he caught 12 of 15 targets for 165 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against HOU he caught 7 of 9 targets for 111 yards and did not score.

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Ricky Pearsall this season.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Malik Nabers played 4 games and scored 57.1 PPR points, 14.3 a game, finishing WR101.

He caught 18 of 35 targets for 271 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 3 red zone targets.

That came to 8.8 targets a game, a 51 percent catch rate and 15.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Ricky Pearsall played 9 games and scored 88.6 PPR points, 9.8 a game, finishing WR72.

He caught 36 of 53 targets for 528 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 5.9 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 14.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 70 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Ricky Pearsall was available for 5 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Malik Nabers scored 14.3 PPR points a game and Ricky Pearsall 9.8, 4.4 a game between them.

Malik Nabers finished WR101 that year and Ricky Pearsall WR72.

Ricky Pearsall had 18 more targets than Malik Nabers, 53 to 35.

Ricky Pearsall had 257 more receiving yards than Malik Nabers, 528 to 271.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 8, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

Ricky Pearsall is listed as ir on the injury report.